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(No Model.)

F. B. BESSETTE.

CONVERTIBLE TOY.

'Patrented'Jam 14, 1890*.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK. B. BESSETTE, OF ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO' JOSEPH P. WILSON AND ADDIE BESSETTE, y

BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

CONVERTIBLE TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters lPatent No. 419,405, dated January 14, 1890.

Application iiled March 23, 188i). Serial No. 304,443. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK. B. BEssErrE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at St. Cloud, in the county of Stearns and' State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Convertible Toys, of which the following is a speciiication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to toys which can be converted so as to be capable of many uses; and the objects of my improvement are to provide a durable and inexpensive toy movable on wheels and on rockers, and also capable of assuming great stability when resting upon its legs. I attain these objects by the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of a wooden horse and its rocking support constituting a rocking-horse in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the wooden horse resting upon its wheels and adapted tov be used as a traveling horse. Fig. 3 is a perspective viewr of the horse-support adapted to be used as a cradle. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the horse-support resting upon its wheels and adapted to be `used as a wagon. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the horse-support or wagon shown in Fig. 4 turned upside down and adapted to be used as a stool. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the horse support or stool shown in Fig. 5 with the rockers of said support turned up and retained horizontally and adapted to be used as a table. Fig. 7 is a vertical transverse section of said table, showing the wire supports for the hinged leaves.

It is well known that nearly all children will soon become tired of a toy after the novelty has worn off when said toy has to be used constantly in the same manner, even if the toys are very ingenious and provided with complex mechanism to give them motion. They generally desire to take them apart, so as lto exert their ingenuity in reconstructing them again. Very often they cannot reconstruct them, as some of the parts may have the horse.

become lost or broken when taken to pieces,

and then the toy loses its attraction.

In this invention only two important part-s are used toproduce six or seven distinct toys thatv can be appreciated by either boys' or girls, as will be hereinafter described.

In the drawings, A represents a hobby-horse consisting of two boards forming its sides cut on the outline of the body of a horse without any legs, but having the front or breast and the rear cut on the same bevel A2. The two sides are united together by the transverse boards A3, which support the top board A4, forming with a suitable cover the saddle of Said horse is provided with four wheels a, having their axles inserted in the bottom of the connecting-boards A3, and of the sides A close to their lower edge. A staple or screw-eye a2 is also inserted in the rear 'connecting-board A2, to which a cord can be secured to harness the horse to a wagon, as hereinafter4 described, while the horse is led or drawn with a cord.

The support for the horsewhen used as a l rocking-horse consists of a bottom board B, and front and rear boards B2 inclined to said bottom board at the same angle that is given to the breast and rear A2 of the horse. To strengthen the connection between the boards B and B2, and to prevent the horse from sliding laterally when used upon its support, the narrow boards B3 are secured to the edges of the boards B B2. To permit the horse and its support, or the support alone, to be rocked, segmental rockers B4 are hinged at b to the bottom edge of the side boards B3, and are retained in the same plane as the boards B3 by means of pins b2 inserted in the edge of these boards and of the rockers. Said horse-support can also be used as a toy cradle.

To transform the horse support into a wagon the segmental rockers are folded against the side of the side boards B3, as shown in Fig. 4, and as the bot-tom board B has four wheels b4 projecting through its surface it can be pulled as a wagon by fastening a cord thereto through the perforations b5. Said wagon can be attached to the rear of the traveling horse, or the horse can be made to stand in it to add toits height and the latter still be used as a traveling horse. Vhen the rockers are folded, as shown in Fig. 4, they are retained in that position by inserting the pins b2 horizontally through them and through the side boards B3. lf the Wagon is reversed upside down, astool will be obtained, as shown in Fig. 5, and by turning the rockers B4 horizontally a table is obtained having segmental leaves. Said leaves are retained horizontally by means of the pins b2, the free ends of which are turned up and bent in the form of a loop b3, that bears against the under side of said leaves.

Having now fully described my invention, I clai x11-- 1. Atoy consisting of a hobby-horse having its front and rear end beveled, and a removable support having front and rear horse-supporting boards set at an angle corresponding with the level of the body of the horse, substantially as described.

2. A toy consisting of a hobby-horse and a removable support having segmental rockers hingedthereto, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. A toy consisting of a hobby-horse and a removable support having carrying-wheels and segmental rockers hinged to said support, substantially as described.

JeThe combination of a hobby-horse, a removable support having segmental rockers hinged thereto, and pins to retain said rockers, substantially as and for the purpose de scribed.

In testimony whereof l afx my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK. B. BESSETTE. W'itnesses:

ANDREW C. ROBERTSON, W. H. VossBERG. 

